Sandra Cisneros is a modern Mexican American novelist and poet. She was born in Chicago in 1954. Cisneros' family, which included six brothers, often moved between Chicago and Mexico, and this had a strong influence on the formation of her personality and future literary work. She was a shy and introvert girl and could not make friends. Her favorite activity was observing other people that later became prototypes of her works. Sandra Cisneros attended a small Catholic all-girls school, where she made first literature steps. She wrote poetry and was the literary magazine editor. Later she was awarded the Master of Fine Arts and the Bachelor in English degrees. After studying, Sandra has been writing and teaching. She received many awards for her literature, in spite of numerous criticisms. In 1984, she published a book The House on Mango Street, which is central to her oeuvre.

The House on Mango Street

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The House on Mango Street is a novel which consists of interconnected vignettes. It is a coming-of-age story of Esperanza Cordero, who moved to Mango Street with her big Mexican family. On the first pages of the novel, she looks like a spoiled girl, not appreciating what she has - a beautiful Spanish name, the first parents' house and even own family. Her only dream is a posh house, which she can be proud. As the story progresses, it becomes clear that she is more profound person than it seems from the first sight. As the author of the novel, its main character loves to observe people. Esperanza tells short stories about her friends, relatives and neighbors. Most of them are females (from little girls to old women). Almost all of them are also immigrants.

More North American essays:

... The House on Mango Street In the novel "The House on Mango Street" Sandra Cisneros records a series of impressions and significant moments in the life of a young girl named Esperanza. This novel covers a year in her life, a year in which her family moves into a rented house on Mango Street ...

... Sandra Cisneros' version of the American Dream can be defined through the lives of the characters in "The House on Mango Street". Using several vignettes throughout the book, Esperanza, the narrator, reveals Cisneros' interpretation of the ideal American life. This American Dream can be compared and ...

... the Sun" and The House on Mango Street The play "Raisin in the Sun" was written by Lorraine Hansberry in 1959. Over twenty years later Sandra Cisneros wrote the novella The House on Mango Street. "Raisin in the Sun" is written in a style portraying realistic speech and the reality of the ...

... on the yellow high heeled shoes, Esperanza feels like Cinderella, and it is "scary to look down at your foot that is no longer yours and see attached a long leg" (Cisneros). The House on Mango Street is an autobiographical account of Cisneros's childhood. The characters are created from the ...

... The House on Mango Street", by Sandra Cisneros, Mango Street is part of a lower class, dangerous neighborhood where women feel imprisoned from life, particularly in the characters of Marin, Sally, and Esperanza. The first woman, Marin, an older friend of Esperanza ...

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